Yet it is more playable than its famous predecessors - Squad Leader and Cross of Iron. a tense game simulation of tactical combat on the Russian Front so realistic that you'll duck with every roll of the dice. Only the battered remnants of the Muecheberg Panzer Division maintains a semblance of order as they sortie for the final time in a desperate effort to break out of the doomed capital and escape to surrender in the west.

Berlin is in utter chaos and civilians fleeing the approaching Red menace fill the streets. Without armor or sufficient reserves, the German defense of the city had scant chance, but the fighting would be bitter nonetheless. The clank of treads on cobblestones foretold the imminent liberation of Warsaw. This defiant symbol of Russian resistance west of the Volga now will surely fall. Newly arrived engineers of the 50th Pioneer Battalion are moving up with demolition charges and flamethrowers. The remnants of the red brick building which has come to be known as the Commissar's House stands defiant against the gray background of the decimated city. Your 2nd Battalion has pentrated the western outskirts of the city with little opposition. You wonder if you can possibly hold them off as your gunner slams the first AP round into the breech. Only your tiny advance force of three vehicles stands between them and Zhabinki. The road is suddenly filled with an approaching Russian motorized column.

From the back of the box… June 22nd, 1941.

Advanced squad leader scenario 3000